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Help Wanted: Immigration Professionals
Multiple Locations - USCIS seeks over 500 entry level Immigration Services Officers.
Positions are available in
duty locations around the nation at the GS-5/7/9 grade levels. Starting
salaries range from $26,264 to $39,795. Promotion potential and regular salary increases may also be
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Monday, May 26, 2008. New recruits will attend a 8-week training program and practicum,
during which new recruits will be provided with the
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Applicants can qualify for the GS-5/7/9 grade
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Help Wanted: Immigration Paralegals
Chicago, IL - Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP seeks senior level
immigration paralegals. Ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in
senior level capacity with an immigration law firm, law department or
corporate immigration function. Manages caseload with a large degree of
independence. May manage team of one or more legal support staff. Serves as
team resource for client and office procedures. Communicates regularly with
clients regarding procedural and case processing issues. Candidates will
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Help Wanted: Immigration Attorney
Cincinnati, OH - Hammond Law Group seeks experienced immigration attorney. Preference given
to attorneys with experience in healthcare and corporate matters.
Experience should include a wide range of employment based immigrant and
nonimmigrant categories. Attorney should be used to working on large
caseloads and supervising Legal Assistants. HLG has a fast-paced and
entrepreneurial culture. Please email resume and writing
sample to rita@hammondlawfirm.com.

Help Wanted: Immigration Attorney
Clearwater, FL - Law ofice of Joan Mathieu seeks experienced immigration attorney with 3+
year's experience practicing US immigration law, including employment, family and
removal. Joan Mathieu, a solo practitioner and the owner of the firm, who has been a member of AILA and past chapter chair, has been practicing immigration exclusively at the profitable downtown Clearwater location for 12 years. She is opening a second office where she will work full time. The new attorney will handle all the firm's current and future clients at the Clearwater location. The position will be ideal for someone who has or had an immigration law firm and seeks to relocate to Florida to start again without all the work of establishing a new practice and the hassle of paying the bills. May also be ideal for associate in big firm who deals well with responsibility and who wants same. Please email resume to immigrator@earthlink.net. Phone number: (727)-462-8181

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Immigration Event - Fresno, CA
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Dear Editor:
I guess Mr. Roberts' letter (05/14/08 ID) holds the same economic views President Reagan did. That would explain its unfounded generalization that undocumented immigrants "irrevocably" harm the United States. The letter shows no need or desire for adequately funded entitlement programs for one's old-age. Perhaps the letter should investigate the tax shortfalls effects in those developed countries which are not immigrant friendly, e.g. France, Japan, and then should check on why Canada, Ireland, Spain and the United States have not yet started the slide toward economic disaster.

Paul Good, Esq.

Dear Editor:
Robert Yang's letter (05/14/08 ID) is absolutely correct that we are in an ever-expanding system of global competition that we would be ill-advised to opt out of, and that free trade in goods, services and people is what our public policies ought to be aiming for. Two problems, however, present themselves in the letter's policy prescriptions. As Rose and Milton Friedman acknowledged, we live in a welfare state that redistributes goods and services on a massive scale, and encourages rent-seeking by certain classes of people. In such a system, a rational crafter of public policy would game immigration policies to privilege the influx of producers over consumers. The grey and black-market parts of our immigration "system" presently do that even worse than the strictly legal parts do. The second area the letter misses is cultural. In countries where silovikhi or their equivalents rule - much of Latin America and certainly most OPEC member nations leap to mind - it is true that those at the upper echelons of society are net consumers from the state rather than contributors. In importing the people of those countries, one is well-advised to guard against importing the habits of those countries that feed such behavior, a willingness to flaunt immigration and other laws among them. Such self-protective efforts can indeed shade over into racism or something resembling it, just as any virtue can be twisted into a vice, but they remain necessary. Immigration skeptics are not irrational to fear some of the negative externalities of immigration in a welfare state. We might try address the concerns of skeptics and still move immigration reform forward. I have spoken Alabama Republican audiences containing Minutemen and made progress on this issue. There is more common ground here than some of us would like to think.

Honza Prchal
Birmingham, AL

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